Analysis of United Nations Agenda 21 – Part 8
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve.
—Minority Report: H.L. Mencken’s Notebooks (1956)
Document: http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/documents/agenda21/english/Agenda21.pdf (Copy: http://www.canadianliberty.com/documents/Agenda21.pdf )
7.20.b is an example of how they want to make cities more appealing:
Improve the urban environment by promoting social organization and environmental awareness through the participation of local communities in the identification of public services needs, the provision of urban infrastructure, the enhancement of public amenities and the protection and/or rehabilitation of older buildings, historic precincts and other cultural artifacts. In addition, “green works” programmes should be activated to create self-sustaining human development activities and both formal and informal employment opportunities for low-income urban residents;
This wasn’t a new idea, but it entered a new phase after Agenda 21 and affected small towns as well as cities. Here are some articles on “beautification:”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beautification
The Laurel Hill Association of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, founded in 1853, is the oldest incorporated village beautification society in the United States. The Memphis City Beautiful Commission, the oldest city beautification project in the United States, was established in 1930.
https://schaeferwaste.com/us/city-beautification/
This article provides background on the concept because a policy of beautification is being introduced for downtown Indianapolis.
The City Beautiful movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities. …
The first large-scale elaboration of the City Beautiful occurred in Chicago at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The planning of the exposition was directed by architect Daniel Burnham, who hired architects from the eastern United States, as well as the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to build large-scale Beaux-Arts monuments that were vaguely classical with uniform cornice height. The exposition displayed a model city of grand scale, known as the “White City”, with modern transport systems and no poverty visible. The exposition is credited with resulting in the large-scale adoption of monumentalism for American architecture for the next 15 years. Richmond, Virginia’s Monument Avenue is one expression of this initial phase. …
I’m quoting this article because it may provide an explanation to some claims being made about past “great resets” and “Tartaria” conspiracy theories that centre around 19th century public expositions.
I believe there was another term used for municipal Agenda 21 beautification projects in Ontario, Canada over the decades, but I can’t recall it.
Experience with a Local Sustainability Group
There were plenty of public-private partnership efforts over the years that used the terms “Sustainable” or “Sustainability.” “Sustainable Peterborough” is an example of this with respect to Peterborough County in Ontario:
Sustainable Peterborough (SP) is a community based regional partnership historically comprised of community groups, businesses, educational institutions, local governments and First Nations. SP evolved out of an informal group of individuals and organizations who started meeting at the dawn of the new millennium under the name of Sustainability Network. Their work led to the creation of the Sustainable Peterborough Plan. In the spring of 2012 the City of Peterborough, the County of Peterborough, its eight Townships, and the two First Nations adopted the Greater Peterborough Area Community Sustainability Plan. SP is overseen by the Sustainable Peterborough Coordinating Committee, an advisory committee to local government. Sustainable Peterborough has been operating under the auspices of Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development since its inception in 2012, and a recent governance review has led to the mutually supported decision that this relationship continues.
Sustainable Peterborough has spent the last couple of years conducting an extensive organizational review, including a governance and plan review. This comprehensive work facilitated many insightful conversations and led to the decision that the new Sustainable Peterborough Plan should focus on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustainable Peterborough (SP) and Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development (PKED) are pleased to announce the launch of Sustainable Peterborough’s new Strategic Plan.
So our world is not planned by citizens influencing their representatives democratically. Our world is planned by powerful people with an agenda who create relationships of influence with those governments–mentioned in the above description. That’s in black and white in that example. If you want it to be different you would have to start with where things are at.
The above quotation cites a commitment to the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, also called Agenda 2030, which is an update to the older Agenda 21 plan which is a plan for the whole 21st century and a revision to the older set of Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).
I had a run-in with this organization installing its formulas in a municipal Official Plan in 2012.
Most of the public isn’t involved even in local decisions, which is partly their fault, but it’s partly the fault of the media and education system who lie to them and tell them they just need to vote at elections. Some residents attended the meeting. Many of them had specific concerns but I don’t think they had read the Official Plan. A corporate lawyer spent a long time talking about his very specific donut-shop concerns, which also illustrates how undemocratic the system is.
Also, months before the Official Plan meeting and vote they used a stripped-down version of the Delphi technique (https://canadianliberty.com/agenda-21-visioning-meetings-delphi-technique-exposed/) in which the public is invited to local meetings (more like exhibitions) prepared by consultants to view various maps and plans–as if we can interpret them and give feedback–and then we are asked to sign a paper to indicate we were present which supposedly gives the appearance of legitimacy to their plans. I said something about property rights and one of the private student contractors advising the town council characterized my views as an “extreme.” This is also an element of the Delphi technique.
There was one elected official there who seemed more sympathetic to what I was saying–as if that mattered. It’s more convenient to have the bad-cop, good-cop display of tension and concern rather than have democracy. All the residents should have been there and communicating with each other and coming to their own conclusions–possibly shared conclusions–but communication has been discouraged and prevented in many ways as part of the social engineering–I think a big part of this is how we use our time. I think for there to be a real direct democracy (if that could exist), each citizen would need to set aside a certain amount of time weekly or even daily to public decisions, as crazy as that might sound.
It serves the system to have “right” and “left” politicians. There is a lot of truth in alternative media and good intentions among many, but I think alternative media also unavoidably serves the function of reducing tension and comforting or appeasing those who are more aware of what is going on. I think it would be better if people were also motivated to effective opposition.
Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)
Word Counts:
Nongovernmental: 30 instances
Nongovernmental organizations: 27 instances
When I say “democratic” I think that means one citizen has an equal vote and say in governmental or public decisions (with private decisions being protected by laws and constitutions!?), which is just not the way things are. When organizations have a voice in politics, even if they are legitimately grassroots which most are not, then things become unequal automatically. I think the only real solution to this would be to actually make sure that each citizen has equal power and priority access to government representatives so that groups, corporate or otherwise, would have to lobby citizens. Forgive me for building up pie-in-the-sky scenarios but I really think we should talk about this considering the current system is collapsing.
With regard to lobbyists, people are aware of corporate influence over politicians for example. An example of the use of undemocratic private organizations or NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in PLANNING THE WHOLE WORLD includes ICLEI, which is an organization enabling cities to “cooperate,” which I don’t think is a valid concept democratically and constitutionally:
7.21. Cities of all countries should reinforce cooperation among themselves [why?] and cities of the developed countries, under the aegis of non-governmental organizations active in this field, such as the International Union of Local Authorities (IULA), the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and the World Federation of Twin Cities.
Here we have the concept of Twin Cities which is another institution originating prior to Agenda 21.