I visited Texas speaking about UN Agenda 21 and how it is implemented.  I wish I could say that it's better in Texas but it's all the same programs and projects with slightly different names all over the nation.  One thing I can say for Texans in Houston and Dallas:  They don't appear to be as brainwashed as our Sonoma County residents.  Once they get the big picture they're ready to take action against local elected officials who won't KICK ICLEI OUT and clean Sustainable Development out of their General Plans.

Sonoma County is a sad case but that doesn't mean that we can't wake up and shake up our fellow liberals to see that the environmental movement has been hijacked by people like Michael Allen, Lisa Maldonado, and Norman Soloman.  And what about Alan Strachan and Dennis Hunter?  Global Legacy?  PACE Loans?  $5 TRILLION IN GREEN LOANS?  These manipulators use all the right jargon to get you going.   But, my friends, as anyone who has been abused knows, the rhetoric is just talk.  You have to look at their actions. 

As I've said before, being a Sociailst is ok in America but don't put 'Democrat' under your name when you're running for office.  Progressives are Socialists.  Oh, I don't mean you.  You think it's cool to be progressive.  You like the IDEA of sharing the wealth, just not your own.  Right?  Are you honest?  Willing to have a couple of families move into your house permanently?  Willing to give up half of your pay?  Or have you lost your job due to a total manipulation of our economy and you're now willing to promote socialism?  It doesn't work.  Utopia is a lovely idea.  Everyone has lots of everything, no one has to do what they don't want to do, lots of smiling people, bikes, and blue skies.  Does the Stalin experiment ring a bell or haven't you heard?  What about Mao?  Great idea, right?  Take the wealth away from the princes and give it to the people.  What happened?  Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.  Won't get fooled again. 

So the Texans are looking at UN Agenda 21 in the form (besides Smart Growth, Comprehensive Plans linked to Metropolitan Planning Organizations in a regional brew that steals their sovereignty, just like yours) of TTC--the TransTexas Corridor, Highway 35.  Enters the nation in Texas, exits at the Canadian border, and links the North American Union.  You don't care about sovereignty, you say?  You have faith that you'll be taken care of, that government is good and you'll live happily ever after?  What about WTO?  Have you forgotten the Battle of Seattle?

Oh, you think government is great?  What about those slimeballs at SMART?  Or do you like the idea that THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS?  Only when you like the ends, right?  And who says that the 'end' is what you think it will be?

What is happening with the OCCUPY thing?  Have you stopped to ask yourself why you think it's cool that anyone would OCCUPY the center of your city?  Are you playing with the idea that you're at WAR WITH THE MAN?  It's stupid.  The government has allowed itself to be taken over by mega corporations.  The only concrete thing I've heard from the whole movement is that you should move your money to a credit union.  What is this?  A credit union backed occupation?  It's a BANK WAR.  And you're in your tent.  Doing your obedient call and response--yes, master, hear and repeat, master.   I urge you to think about all of this--it is a manipulation, a distraction.  YOUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN TAKEN OVER BY MEGA CORPORATIONS AND YOU ARE LOSING YOUR CIVIL LIBERTIES.  NOW.

KICK ICLEI OUT.  STOP AGENDA 21.  NAME THE PROGRESSIVES SOCIALISTS AND MOVE ON FROM THERE.  Get up, Stand up.
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OCCUPY CITY HALL 10/12/2011
 
I had been thinking that the 'Occupy' movement was a wonderful opportunity for Americans to get together and share information and ideas about what has happened with our government.  Clearly the economy has collapsed due to manipulation, regulation, and outright theft by our government. 

When I saw that the 'Occupy Santa Rosa' meeting this coming Saturday was organized by Lisa Maldonado I knew there was a serious problem.  She heads up the North Bay Labor Council of the AFL-CIO.  Did you know that the AFL-CIO supports Smart Growth and condemned sprawl (aka Suburbs and Rural Areas) at their annual 2001 Convention because most rural and suburban areas don't support unions as much as the big cities do?  She refers to herself on her Twitter account as:

Lisa Maldonado @LaMujerObrera en la lucha.  just your average labor boss,working for the revolution, all about the class struggle and waiting for the great leap forward.

Just in case you think that this is a charming bit of humor I'll remind you that she is a vicious attacker of anyone who disagrees with her (often referring to the person as a 'hater' so that she can justify her abuse), and is dead serious.  'En la lucha' means 'in the fight' in Spanish. 'Working for the Revolution, all about the Class Struggle, and Waiting for the Great Leap Forward' all reference Communist regimes; specifically Russian and Chinese. 

Lisa Maldonado is a Progressive Democrat.   You might think you know what that means.  You might even call yourself a progressive Democrat too.  But what it means to you and what it means to the Progessive Democrats of America and the  Congressional Progessive Caucus are two different things.  They are socialists.  You might think that socialism sounds cool.  Especially if you don't own anything and don't have a job.  The collapse of the economy feeds the socialist movement.  Promises of jobs, housing, education, health care, and green draw you in.  If Lisa Maldonado is any indication of the behavior of other socialists, the first thing to go is your right to free speech.  The Congressional Progressive Caucus is the largest caucus in the Democratic party, with over 80 members.  It was formed by the Democratic Socialists of America.

Here's a statement from their website (http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/widemsoc.pdf)

Aren't you a party that's in competition with the
Democratic Party for votes and support?
No, we are not a separate party. Like our friends and allies in the feminist, labor, civil rights, religious, and community organizing movements, many of us have been active in the Democratic Party. We work with those movements to strengthen the party’s left wing, represented by the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

The process and structure of American elections seriously hurts third party efforts. Winner-take-all elections instead of proportional representation, rigorous party qualification requirements that vary from state to state, a presidential instead of a parliamentary system, and the two-party monopoly on political power have doomed third party efforts. We hope that at some point in the future, in coalition with our allies, an alternative national party will be viable. For now, we will continue to support progressives who have a real chance at winning elections, which usually means left-wing Democrats.


NORMAN SOLOMAN IS A PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT. 
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Today's Santa Rosa Press Democrat published some  "Let them eat cake" comments by Valerie Brown and Jake Mackensie regarding the SMART train failures.  They'd said that the folks who are calling for a repeal of the 1/4 cent sales tax to pay for the ever-widening cost of the train were 'never in support of SMART'-- implying that it was a sour-grapes movement.

I posted this comment on WatchSonomaCounty.org:
Don’t forget that many of us who opposed SMART in the first place did so because we could see the serious flaws and outright lies in the propaganda.

We are not opposed to mass transit, not opposed to public transportation, and not opposed to trains.

We are opposed to fat cat bureaucrats making deals with land owners who have donated to their political campaigns. We are opposed to bait and switch. We are opposed to big pensions and endless consultant fees. We are opposed to arrogance and ignorance in our elected officials.

The Santa Rosa Neighborhood Coalition will do whatever we can to assist REPEAL SMART. Let’s get those petitions out to the community and derail this gravy train to nowhere.

Rosa Koire
Steering Committee
Santa Rosa Neighborhood Coalition

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I just left a city council meeting.  I was there to speak on behalf of a group of business and property owners, but I didn't expect the council to do the decent thing.  That's because they support prostitution, but only for themselves.

Down on South A Street below Highway 12 right about where South A meets Santa Rosa Avenue, there are two property owners.  One is Jim Bennett, the owner of a small, pristine, previously owned BMW dealership called Good Stuff.  Jim is pretty good stuff himself, a fine trustworthy straight-shooter, who took part in the lawsuit to stop the fraudulent Gateways Redevelopment project.  When we lost that lawsuit and appealed and lost again, Jim's property, which was in the 1,100 acre project area, was in jeopardy.  It's a small property, triangular in shape with great frontage and visibility on Santa Rosa Avenue and access from South A Street in back.  I said there's another property owner too.  That one is on the other side of South A Street, across from Good Stuff.  It's owned by a couple of guys who developed the Nissan dealership there and want to put a Kia dealership on some land just north of them, also across from Good Stuff.  Ok, so what?  It's a free country.  

But here's the deal.  The Nissan/Kia guys want Jim's property.  They've been eyeing it because it has such terrific long frontage on Santa Rosa Avenue, and great visibility.  So what did they do?  They told the City that they wanted the street, South A Street, to be part of their property and would the City give it to them?  At first the City, smelling money from the development of Kia, said yes.  Then they looked at the original deeds and discovered that they were going to have to give half (up to the center line) to Jim and half to Nissan/Kia.  But wait, they decided that the end of the street where it meets Santa Rosa Avenue could be sold directly to Nissan/Kia, even though it touches Jim's property too, and that Jim wouldn't have any chance to buy it.  

Not only that, but all of the many property owners on South A Street, including an ambulance service, would hit a dead end instead of being able to drive down South A and out to Santa Rosa Avenue.  They'll have to take a left and sit at a long light on Barham.  All of those small businesses, all of those longtime business people, those hard working, tax paying, decent Santa Rosans will lose their access, and be hurt.


But they're in a redevelopment area and have lost their property rights. Yes, if someone else can generate more property taxes on your property than you can they get the green light.  And that's the plan for Jim's property---when Nissan/Kia decides to drop the ax.  That's how redevelopment works.  Nissan/Kia wants Jim's property and the city can get it for them.  Meanwhile, the city will do what they can to hurt Jim's land value so it won't cost them as much when they do decide to take Jim by eminent domain.

The City Council showed their disregard for citizens tonight.  They didn't flinch when they were called shameless.  Their attorneys smirked at the mention of the law.  In the New Feudalism of Santa Rosa big money talks.  The Nissan/Kia guys hired an old retired city manager to rub shoulders and make the deal for them.  The city attorney shook their hands at the end of the night.  The city planners were working for Nissan/Kia.  The police and fire mumbled that they didn't mind having their traffic pattern changed.  The vision of semi-trucks and delivery vehicles backed up at the light didn't phase them.  The 'traffic study' was from 2007, was outdated and didn't reflect the ambulance service or the dealership traffic, but the City ignored that.

This was a sham, a shame, and shirking of responsibility by the City.  Prostititution appears to be legal in Santa Rosa.  Just ask the Council.
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I got something funny in my email the other day.  One of the websites I subscribe to had published an article by Cynthia Boaz, an assistant professor at Sonoma State University, who is a left-identified political scientist who has involved herself with middle east issues.  Her article was entitled "Fourteen Propaganda Techniques Fox 'News' Uses to Brainwash Americans."  

I had contacted Cynthia Boaz about a year or so ago because she commented on a newspaper website that she had been 'purged' from the email list of a local group, Sonoma County Conservation Action, because she had criticized a politician that they support.

Here's what she wrote:
My question: has Debora Fudge disclosed – in the name of full transparency- that she took $500 for her supervisor campaign from the Coddings? It’s on her financial report, but did the rest of the SMART board know of her vested interest in the Codding site and conversely, does FPPC know of the cozy relationship between the Coddings and SMART board? How is that not a conflict of interest?? Or something much worse? SCCA banned me from their Facebook page (and deleted all my previous comments, even ones that had nothing to do with Fudge or this race) after I asked this question there, in response to their celebratory post about this announcement. It’s sad that a nonprofit whose mission is supposedly embedded in values like transparency, accountability and the public good prefers to reflexively defend “their” candidate rather than engage in serious public debate. Just because their candidate Debora Fudge does it (take developer money and hands out political favors) does not make it right.

Here's what I wrote to her:
'Dear Professor Boaz,
I was interested to read your comment that you had been scrubbed from the SCCA facebook page along with all of your posts.  I thinks it's far more serious than sad that an inflexible ideology has devolved into a purging of reasonable inquiry.  The so-called progressive politics of the North Bay are rigidly isolating dissent and, through struggle meetings and other tactics regularly employed to chill intelligent debate, causing many to withdraw from the community.'

She never responded.  I guess she slipped back into the fold.

So imagine my amusement at reading her July 2 article on the fourteen propaganda techniques used by Fox News to brainwash Americans.  I was laughing through the first 5 or so because the Left, via media, local groups, Democratic Party operatives, lobbyists, UN boosters, labor 'leaders' and various obedient lackeys, had used these techniques on ME.  A liberal. And apparently had used a few on HER too.  I didn't read all of them---I really should see if they all fit, but they keep crashing my computer.

Hey, before you get too smug about this please realize that Fox News does use those techniques.  So do others.  Don't be duped. Clear your vision.  That's the only vision you should be having---clear vision---since it's pretty hard to see with the wool pulled over your eyes.
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Sonoma Marin Area Regional Transportation--SMART train, ain't either.

Get this: The OneBayArea.org plan, a regional transportation and housing plan in the implementation stage NOW, aims to restrict the construction of all new residential units in the Bay Area along just a few ‘transportation corridors.’

Now, it doesn’t matter if there is actually a train, since we know there isn't enough money to build it.  Just the expectation of the train is enough according to the Metropolitan Transportation District (MTC). The idea is that you can’t get public transportation cost effectively to the rural and suburban areas, therefore you need to move all of the people in to the city center.

The deal is that if cities in the Bay Area want any of the MTC transportation dollars in the next 25 years, the cities have to agree not to approve any residential development anywhere but in the redevelopment areas along train tracks and bus lines. That means high density condo development–vertical sprawl.

If you think this is a good thing take a look at where you’re living now. Are you in a condo next to the railroad tracks? With higher gas prices and VMT (vehicle miles traveled tax) coming your way, you’ll effectively be forced to take public transportation…even when there isn’t any. That’s the case with notSmart. You won’t be able to afford your car and your county roads won’t be paved out to your rural or suburban home. You’ll be moved into the vertical sprawl next to the tracks. This is UN Agenda 21.

This is a manipulation and a green mask for controlling where we live and how we live. By putting the greenhouse gas mask on it these regional boards can dictate who gets our tax money and keep pounding sand dollars down the rat hole of notSmart.

See Democrats Against UN Agenda 21 dot com for more info.

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We got Delphi'd big time the other night and that train is headed your way.  You know that being 'Delphi'd' means that you were subjected to a visioning meeting where the outcome was a done-deal before you walked in the room.  They're calling it 'YOU CHOOSE' but the reality is that the only thing that makes it yours is that your taxes pay for it and it will be imposed on you.  

The plan, OneBayArea, is regional.  It's a transportation plan primarily but that's just the excuse for creating a huge master plan based on redevelopment that includes land use restrictions.  Basically it's a stack-em and pack-em housing model for an enormous UN Agenda 21/ICLEI plan.  Moving you out of your rural and suburban home into a tightly designed, easily monitored apartment or condo with no space for your car and lousy public transportation. A combination of high gas prices, loss of services in the suburbs, reduced speed limits, and failure to pave county roads will pressure you into the city. The story you'll hear is that the only way that people will take public transportation is if they are crowded into downtown areas, and giving up cars is the main way to stop greenhouse gases.  What about electric cars?  We're told that driving is anti-social and besides WE NEED EXERCISE!   The facilitators, by the way, are complete hypocrites who live in single family homes...just ask them.  And they drove to the meeting, too.  Greenhouse gases are the green mask. 

Regionalism--the intermediate step in globalization, and the method by which laws, rules, and regulations can be standardized so that you can't escape them.  In the case of OneBayArea.org the regional push is to restrict future development to redevelopment areas ONLY.  Did you get that?  If you own land outside of those areas you will not be able to build on it.  Now we didn't say 'land outside of the city limits'---no.  Land outside of a redevelopment area, outside of a transportation corridor will not be buildable.  This is stunning.  If your city wants to get a piece of the big funding pie for transportation and planning in the SF Bay Area it has to agree that for the next 25 years the only development will happen within the redevelopment area boundaries. Why are they doing it in redevelopment areas?  Because they have the power of eminent domain there and can take your land and give to another private person.  The city/county can take the property taxes in that area for the next 30-45 years and use it to pay off bond debt and pay their cronies to develop SmartGrowth.  Hear that thunder?  It's sellers running to dump their property outside of redevelopment areas and buyers racing to buy within those areas.  But quietly, stealthily, because you haven't woken up to it yet.

OK---the meeting.  If you've never experienced a Delphi meeting you're in for a shock.  Although the facilitators SAY that it's all about hearing your opinion, in fact if you dare to say anything or ask any question that doesn't agree with the steamrollering propaganda machine you'll be shouted down. Yep, supposedly decent Americans from your own community will shout at you like a feral mob and scream that THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW where the funding for the project came from.  THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW how much the project is costing them.  THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW why the entire plan/project was pre-designed even though it's supposedly being shaped by the public.  How much is it costing?  $200,000,000,000.  THAT'S 200 BILLION DOLLARS JUST IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA.

If you want to keep your community the way it is now it's called 'Business As Usual' and they'll shame you.  The choices you are supposed to pick are 'Planned Future' with more and more urban development and more government control.  The facilitators go to work on you if you don't want to go along with the program.  Punishment, shaming, isolation. The room was packed with elected officials, government employees, non-profit groups, board and committee appointees who made sure that the outcome was the 'right' one. 

WHY?  Your government/public-private partnership corporate ruler needs you to buy the illusion that you have some say in what happens to you so that you'll BELIEVE THAT YOU LIVE IN A FREE COUNTRY.  Funny thing is that you live in a  Republic that is run as a Democracy.  Mob rule is supposed to be controlled by the legal system but unfortunately the courts are part of it. They don't want you to make trouble for them while they sew up the new totalitarian state.

We suggest that you get a copy of 1984 by George Orwell and read it.  It's the blueprint for the 21st century.  
Read up.  Stand up.  Speak out.  GO TO THE MEETINGS.
STOP ICLEI.  STOP REDEVELOPMENT--THE FUNDING AND EMINENT DOMAIN ARM OF UN AGENDA 21.
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There are Delphi meetings going on all over the nine county Bay Area right now.  Put on by www.OneBayArea.org they are public/private meetings organized by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Association of Bay Area Governments, and local agencies and groups.
As you know, a Delphi meeting is set up on the premise that the organizer is 'welcoming the public's input' but the truth is that the outcome of the meeting was determined in advance.  The public is there for a propaganda session and to give the illusion that there was public buy-in.  Typically participants are given crayons and paper like children and told to 'design' a perfect community.  This utopia was miraculously envisioned in advance and is produced on colored maps with lots of pretty pictures of middle class people recreating. 
The goal is to homogenize the Bay Area and the nation with 'smart growth'--mixed use developments subsidized by your tax dollars, with ground floor shops and two to four stories of residential units above.  Very little parking, very little open space, few private outdoor areas.  Constructed right next to a busy street or rail-line (active or not), these condo and apartment developments discourage private vehicles.  Planning documents for each and every city and county are standardized and brought into alignment with this idea.  No one can get anything built that does not conform to this plan, and only subsidized developers (cronies) can get their projects built.  Banks won't lend on these projects without government guarantees because they often have high vacancy, crime, and poor maintenance.  Typically the retail space never rents up or rents for far less than the developer expected.  Often the developer has gotten a private loan from an elderly investor who then loses everything.  Up here in Sonoma County we have developers Alan Strachan and Orin Theissen as the most infamous for that behavior.  And you'll recall that Alan Strachan had been poised to offer 'Green Energy Loans' as a boondoggle pushed by the sponsors of One Bay Area. 

This is social engineering.  These developments are designed for the minimum of privacy, and to allow controlling energy and water agencies the option of limiting your usage without your input.  In the guise of environmentalism the stress of living will increase through greater regulation and restrictions.

PLAN TO ATTEND THIS MEETING (read about Delphi meetings first)

Sonoma County* Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
The Glaser Center
547 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa
Register

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Last year, Rosa Koire coined the term 'Vertical Sprawl' for the new urbanist high density development being touted as the solution for a non-existent problem of too many homes in the suburbs.  Unless the problem is that not enough tax revenue is being siphoned off to crony-developers who expect to get big subsidies from Redevelopment Agencies.  Locals like Laura Hall and Lois Fisher have made a business out of redesigning city centers and selling form-based zoning codes (a one-size-fits-all model) to brainwashed city officials all over the nation.  Now that this top heavy style of bloated government/public partnerships is failing some 'environmental crony groups' like LIEE, Sonoma County Conservation Action, and Greenbelt Alliance are whining that there might not be enough money for them in the future. 
They're counting on your ignorance and compliance to swallow the empty so-called green rhetoric that they're pushing.
High density urban development like the 4 story Moore Building that sits nearly empty on Healdsburg Avenue and 10th in downtown Santa Rosa.  The family that built that with their savings lost everything.  Crony developers and the groups they fund, like Sonoma County Conservation Action, along with the fake greens, the train proponents, are in it to influence politicians, get contracts, get subsidies, and manipulate regulations.
Who gets hurt?
You.
Elnoka is a perfect example.  The high density housing project to be built against the wishes of the neighboring low density senior development.  Where is it?  Out in the boonies.  No need for high density there, but the developer wants it and has the rhetoric to get the green power trippers on his side. 
Green: the color of money. 
It's for your own good---it's Communitarianism and UN AGENDA 21.
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This summer, the Post Sustainability Institute in collaboration with SRNC will be hosting the Behind the Green Mask Conference in Santa Rosa, CA. 

With leaders and activists speaking on topics ranging from UN Agenda 21 to Redevelopment Reform to Exposing New Urbanism to SMART METERS, to Recognizing Communitarianism, the conference will be a forum for those in Northern California and beyond to share information and learn more.  This is a non-partisan event. 

Contact us for details.
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